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Archive for May, 2004

Another Big Blue E Arriving

Posted by Chief Oddball on Monday, May 31st, 2004 in Computers

Dell Inspiron 8600

It’s funny; back in the old days of the Oddball Update, when I would make entries using Microsoft Word (or, if you go back far enough, even the old Windows 3.1 accessory called “Write”), I would always lapse into fits of tech speak, [...]

Weird Day

Posted by Chief Oddball on Wednesday, May 26th, 2004 in Life

Today sure started off weird. I normally get up at 7:00 with the intention of getting to work by 8:30. This morning, however, I find myself woken up by my wife instead of the usual alarm, who then points at the clock. The clock says 8:06.
“That’s mighty strange,” I pontificate in a [...]

Constipated Fogey of the Day: May 25th

Posted by Chief Oddball on Tuesday, May 25th, 2004 in Rants

After an extended hiatus (I admit I haven’t been thinking much about the tired laments of boring, whiny people lately), I found a real gem in today’s paper.

It saddens me that you chose a photo of two graduates kissing as your selection for the front page of Saturday’s paper. Where were the pictures of hats [...]

Say Hello to Deimos & Callisto!

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, May 21st, 2004 in Computers

Deimos and Callisto

Question: What do you do when your workplace decides it wants to give away, free of charge, half a dozen old, OLD computers that it no longer needs? Answer: If you’re me, you take as many as you can get!
A while back, [...]

Miscellaneous Garbage

Posted by Chief Oddball on Tuesday, May 18th, 2004 in Randomness

Folks, I am now about to take you on a ride into the dark and dingy world of weblogging. For the next few minutes, the Oddball Update will descend into that insipid realm of self-serving content spewage that means absolutely nothing to anybody but the author. It’s a 99.9% waste of the Internet, [...]

UPN 8 Sucks

Posted by Chief Oddball on Monday, May 17th, 2004 in Rants

The local UPN affiliate in my area sucks donkey gonads. This isn’t anything particularly new, since they’ve always really blown (I mean, when your call letters are “WEVU” and you make jokes in your bumpers like “We View TV!”, you have to be pretty far down on the totem pole of TV station professionalism). [...]

California Knight

Posted by Chief Oddball on Sunday, May 9th, 2004 in Knight Project

You guys are gonna like this one!

I just got this in the mail today! Another member of the KITT replica community produced a run of about 100 of these incredibly accurate license plate replicas, so I decided to grab one—even though this is the sort of “finishing touch” accessory usually reserved for once you [...]

DOS Adventures

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, May 7th, 2004 in Computers

Last night I began my latest “gee, that sounds like fun” project: Slap together a DOS gaming box and get it loaded up with every classic game from my past, from Wolfenstein to Doom, Duke3D to System Shock, Quarantine to Heretic. The underlying reason for my doing this is so that I can play [...]

Back To Southeast Asia

Posted by Chief Oddball on Thursday, May 6th, 2004 in Life

“Confirmed!” It looks like my wife and I will be heading back to Thailand this year! It’s been since Christmas of 1999 that either of us were there, and we’re both looking forward to seeing friends and family, eating authentic Thai food and checking out all the sights. At first we weren’t [...]

You’re Dead, and Everyone Knows It But You

Posted by Chief Oddball on Wednesday, May 5th, 2004 in Games, PC

Ever wonder what people will say about you after you’re dead and buried? “Can’t say as I have,” you might reply absent-mindedly. Ordinarily I would answer in kind, but tonight I got a taste of that strange feeling—knowing what people might be saying about oneself posthumously. It’s left a bit of an [...]